always late

I always seem to get my pictures on here after I have already posted about something but hopefully that will now change as my GINORMOUS computer has arrived! I am working on it now and I LOVE it! Thank you so very much my Max for knowing I needed one so badly!

Finally, my before and afters of the kitchen. No picture is going to accurately show how much better it looks but I can guarantee you it is much, much better. My walls are a copper color... not orange like the photos show.

My little Luca lion after his haircut. Even though he gets a bit chilly easier, he absolutely LOVES it. He much prefers his hair cut short we have found. Clyde gets confused because he usually picks Luca up by his hair but now there is no hair so he goes for his face and picks him up. No worries, we don't let our dogs beat each other up, this is just how they play. As soon as Clyde gets Lucas head, Luca will bite and hang on to his lip.

No words, this is after a week of my husbands hair growing out. Sigh, another couple weeks and it will be normal.

Catch up

Life has been altogether pretty much the same as always. I am still work at the bank and working at Holiday. That takes up a pretty good chunk of my time.

Work has been unbelievably slow which is completely understandable. No one has any money to put in and no one has any money to take out and spend. So much for stimulating the economy. I think bank tellers know better then anyone how people are suffering everyday. We see it every time we help a customer out. It's quite depressing actually.

Max finally got called back to work at County Concrete so he should be starting back in the next couple weeks :) It will be very nice to see him get back into a normal schedule. He has been staying up until 5 in the morning and sleeping until noon. He is by nature a night person but 5 in the morning? That's pushing it a little far for me. By the time he finally gets all settled and is sleeping, my alarm goes off for me to get up and get ready for work. I am a snooze button pusher too, at least 3 times everyday. The last couple days have been worse though, haha, I have been pushing the snooze for like an hour! Don't worry though, I set my alarm knowing that I will probably do this. Every single morning I hope that I will get up even 10 minutes earlier so my morning doesn't run quite so close to being really late but it never seems to work. I guess I just have it in my blood to be late. Poo.

This past weekend I cut Lucas hair. Haha, he looks like a lion now. I cut his body really, really short which he absolutely loves and kept his face shaggy. Pictures don't quite show how cute my little lion is though because when I showed pictures to Coletters and Nikki, they didn't like it very much but everyone that has seen him in person likes it a lot!
Lately I have noticed my puppies are liking Max better then me :( Usually they are both kind of mommas boys but as of recently, not so much. I understand why they do as I am never home but still. It hurts my feelers a little bit! My sweet little babies don't need to be by me quite as much anymore. We will see how they do once Max goes back to work. I am a little afraid of how they will react! I don't want my couch to be destroyed or anything else for that matter! We will have to stock up on bones and toys for them to chew on in their spare time. Since it will be nicer outside (hopefully) they will get to go on walks also. That should help.

My Max bought me a wonderful present last week! He bought me a new computer with some of his poker money he has been hoarding away! Can you believe that? How awesome! This computer will be seriously so amazing for working on photos! I am so excited! I can actually start getting going on getting some business. The problem before was that my old computer was so bad, it couldn't keep up with anything I was doing. Now its to the point where it won't even load some pages on internet because it is so slow. That is quite a problem when you are running a program as large as photoshop. I hope that I can get some practice in before really starting to get some serious business... Anyone up for some photos? My favorites are babies and kidders, but I need some practice doing families... maybe some sporty business? Let me know!

My husband shaved his head. Yes, shaved his head. He has been talking about it for like a month and I have tried my hardest explaining to him that he has a head that is meant for hair but he didn't care. He shaved it. He was quite impressed with how round his head was meaning that some people have weird little dents or shapes but his was actually quite round. Doesn't mean it looked the greatest though. I told him I don't understand why he would want to shave his head when he as a very, VERY thick head of hair and most guys would be happy to have his hair and yet he is wasting it away by shaving it off. That didn't matter either. It's been about a week now and he has some fuzz on there. Already it looks better. It will be much better when it's like an inch or two long!

back from the dead

Holy moses, it has been quite a while. You know how I know that? Erin at work has been on my case for a week now about not having anything for her to read. Also, because since I've had so much going on, I've been putting off blogging about it since there is so much. I am at work now, so I won't be able to put up the accompying photos but I will... evenutally :)

The main focus in my life right now is the wedding. It is coming up very quickly and those little details are needing to be tended too. I hate little details, I immensley dislike planning things especially big events it seems. Max and I are more of a "go with the flow" type of people and it seems to work with us. I guess weddings and receptions are just not the "go with the flow" type of deals. Sigh.

If we go back a couple of weeks wedding wise, we got the invitations made and out. I have been receiving all of the reply cards back which is very fun... I love getting the mail knowing there is fun stuff in there and not just bills and junk! For those of you who have not sent it back yet... GET ON IT!! haha, I didn't spent 27 cents on that sucker to not have some fun in my mailbox. Plus I have a very intricate system for entering who is coming and how many. Max's stepmom Laurie is cooking for the reception and she is a WONDERFUL cook. I'm sure she would like to know how many are coming to the most accurate count possible.

My bridesmaids and I also made our shirts for the bachelorette party. SUPER CUTE and way cheaper then buying those premade shirts that say bride/bridesmaid/maid of honor. Plus this way we were each able to put our own personal touches on the shirts that reflect our style. Caitlin couldn't come tho to make her shirt... I made it for her and then texted her a pic of it before I glued anything that way she could decide if she liked it or not. They are so very beautiful and we will finally be able to wear them next weekend! I'm very excited about my bach party! It will be so much fun hanging out with the girls all day, dressing up for dinner and then of course, going out afterwards ;) My girls and I know how to party I'll tell you when we actually get out of our houses and go out. We have only had one "girls night" before and if that was any indication on how the night will go with many more girls, we will DEFINETLY have a great time.

I had my first wedding shower on the 26th with Max's family and with my moms side. It turned out so nice! It was a big turnout... or so I thought anyway. We had about 30 girls there and everyone was very good about chatting with everyone and not sticking in little groups. We had the shower at Angels house because it's ginormous and because it is so purty! They had it decorated in an island theme and had some good grub. Max and I made out with some great gifts... mom had on the invitation that it was a kitchen shower so all the gifts were related to the kitchen. One of my favorite presents was our new silverware... it's so pretty to eat off of! Don't get me wrong, I love everything. Max is having lots of fun making food on our new goodies. We got a magic bullet, a new griddle, a george forman, baking stuff, lots of utensils, glass bowls, decorative holders for stuff, a fancy silverware holder, and ect. See, lots of good stuff. My family and my new family is very good to me. My friends too :)

Lets see, what else am I missing... dryer still isn't working after about 3 months. It's not technically the dryer which we didn't find out until AFTER we bought another set but its the electric in the basement. They are attempting to fix it today. The boys are putting in new wiring and putting in a circuit box since everything was run off fuses before. Hopefully this works because I'm pretty sure that people are sick of us bringing over wet laundry to get dried. I hope it gets fixed also because since the electric is totally down now, the sewer pump is currently not working. There hasn't been any overflow of nasty stuff but it would probably come pretty soon if something doesn't get done.

Otherwise things are fine. Puppies are good other then their little issues. Clyde still jumps on people which we are going to try to fix by borrowing a friends shock collar. Now people, I don't like the idea of a shock collar but we have tried everything else with this dog and unless you want to get mauled everytime you walk in our door by an overfriendly 75 pound dog that also likes to love clamp on your arm, the shock collar is necessary. Luca is still messing in the house. I love that dog very much but sometimes I would like to rip off his little head! He knows to go potty outside, he does. He was completely potty trained until Max went back to work. Then he started pooping in the house and then once we got him fixed, he started peeing in the house too. We have started giving him "time outs" when he makes a mess. He goes in a tiny little box in our closed off office where he can hear whats going on but he gets no part of it. Any suggestions on this particular problem?

Max is good, he is still searching for a job so if anyone knows of anything in the accounting business, he has an associates in accounting and is very willing to do pretty much anything. I am still at the bank, enjoying every second of it... (saying this sarcastically of course) I do work with really cool people tho, they have fastly become good friends. They won all the prizes at my shower for the games related to who knows me the best.

That's all for now folks... work is getting busy! I'll try to put the pics up tomorrow after my second shower at Grandmas house!

Puppies to dogs to nasty

My beautiful little babies are all grown up now. *Sniff sniff* They are so grown up now that they get into nasty things. These nasty things tend to have other nasty things on them and then my dogs think it's cool to get the little nasty things that other nasty things leave behind. I can't even say it.... nope. It's like my dirty little secret, my little secret that my beautiful little babies forced on me and their dad. Ok, I think I can get it out, this nasty little detail I'm leaving out, the nasty little detail that's leaving everyone wondering what the devil I'm talking about.

My dogs.... have fleas.

OOOhhhh, who knew a sentence could be so embarrassing! Oh my gosh. Nasty nasty nasty! You can't even fathom how disgusted I am by that. Why oh why couldn't we have a Fleet Farm in my tiny town so I could run right over there and get some flea shampoo, flea powder, Frontline and about everything with FLEA REMOVAL written all over it. Nasty, nasty, nasty.

I thought I was done with nasty blood sucking vermin for the year... I guess not.

Mason Jar

My favorite glass to drink out of broke tonight. Doesn't everyone have a favorite glass? A favorite bowl? Favorite fork? I know you do... my favorite glass broke. It was a mason jar so it won't be hard to replace, but it made me kind of sad. If I had my own t.v. show like Oprah, "My Favorite Things" episode would include a mason jar. Not as classy as Oprah, I will admit.
Max accidentally knocked it off the counter while he was doing dishes. He set it aside until I could see it so I would know that he broke it. H knew I'd be sad too. Haha, you get so attached to the stupidest things...

P.S. Luca survived his neutering, he's home safe and sound and two balls lighter :)

The end of summer weekends...

I had a fabulous weekend! It's not too often that I can say that, fabulous. Usually I have pretty good weekends mixed with a few "eh" weekends but not this weekend. F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S.

It started with not having to work on Saturday. Heaven! Instead I was the photographer for a small wedding in Hammond. It was very pretty. The bride, Val, called me about 2 weeks ago and asked me to shoot it. Planning everything at the last minute i guess! I had taken her sons senior pictures so that's how she knew to look me up. It was short and sweet and turned out beautiful. It was the first wedding I've been to though where they didn't have the whole "you may now kiss the bride" even though they were very lovey dovey while taking pictures. Weird.

After I got back from the wedding, Max and I got into a small, tiny, itty bitty argument but once we got that done and over with we decided that a date night was in order. Max's sister, Angel, got me a gift certificate to Olive Garden for my birthday so we decided to eat there and it was yummy! I had seafood alfredo and Max had some 5 cheese ziti pasta thing plus as much breadsticks and raspberry lemonade that we could fit in our bellies.

On our way back home, I decided that since it was so nice outside that we should go for a walk down on the pier in Hudson. Max doesn't normally like to walk so much but I think he just wanted to continue with our good night. We got downtown and searched for parking and went a walking. We were on the water right at the sunset and it was so pretty! This night totally sounds like a cliche but I don't care. It was so nice to spend time together. After walking around a bit we went home and watched a movie. Very, very, very nice evening.


Yesterday I did a bunch of laundry in the morning. Our dryer is currently out of order so when it's nice and sunny out that's when I get to do laundry. That's the best way anyway, when your clothes and sheets smell like sunshine. I love to crawl into bed and take a big ole whiff of my bed. Mmmm Mmmmm. Anywho, I got this overwhelming urge to jump in a nice cold lake so I called up JW and Rachel to see if they wanted to go swimming. Rachel was in Woodbury so JW and I trucked over to Eau Galle to go swimming. It was a blast from the past down there. We kept remembering times from back in high school when used to practically live at that beach with our0 We got downtown and searched for parking and went a walking. We were on the water right at the sunset and it was so pretty! This night totally sounds like a cliche but I don't care. It was so nice to spend time together. After walking around a bit we went home and watched a movie. Very, very, very nice evening.

The lake was actually very cold and took a bit for us to get in. First we just jumped in and then laid out in the sun. Then we went back in for a swim. On our way back to our towels the funniest thing happened. I was just about to lay down on my towel, I was kneeling over when SNAP! My swimsuit top catapulted from my ladies and landed 2 or 3 feet in front of me. Geez, I dived for my towel so no one would see and couldn't believe it. It was like I had a blower system in my boobs or something that exploded and made my top fly off. Not cool. I don't think anyone saw me, JW was right next to me and she didn't know what happened till she noticed my bare back so I think I'm covered. Good